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Editor in Chief Bill	15 Oct 2019 9:20 a.m. PST
What was your original miniature wargaming scale? The scale that your miniature gaming started out in?
Skeets	15 Oct 2019 9:25 a.m. PST
For land games 25mm except 20mm for WW2, naval 1/1200.
GatorDave	15 Oct 2019 9:30 a.m. PST
1/1200 Naval
khanscom	15 Oct 2019 9:35 a.m. PST
Scruby N-gauge, and soon after Airfix 1/72.
martinjpayne1964	15 Oct 2019 9:41 a.m. PST
OO/HO (20mm)
dBerczerk	15 Oct 2019 9:43 a.m. PST
25mm MINIFIG Napoleonics.
Dave Schmid	15 Oct 2019 9:43 a.m. PST
15 mm (1/100 scale)
79thPA	15 Oct 2019 9:45 a.m. PST
Real wargaming as opposed to big plastic army men was 1/72 scale plastics.
Son of MOOG	15 Oct 2019 9:48 a.m. PST
15mm English Civil War and American Civil War.
Oberlindes Sol LIC	15 Oct 2019 9:49 a.m. PST
1/72
aegiscg47	15 Oct 2019 9:50 a.m. PST
A box of Atlantic WW2 1/72nd scale figures and a copy of the Angriff rules.
coopman	15 Oct 2019 9:54 a.m. PST
Airfix soft plastics (20mm?).
Martian Root Canal	15 Oct 2019 9:55 a.m. PST
1/72 Airfix
Wackmole9	15 Oct 2019 10:01 a.m. PST
1/72 airfix
GildasFacit	15 Oct 2019 10:16 a.m. PST
1/72 Arfix for me too. Not that I managed to get many armies painted of them. Moved to 15mm when I started to be able to afford metal figures.
Corporal Fagen	15 Oct 2019 10:24 a.m. PST
25mm Ral Partha Sudan
Flashman14	15 Oct 2019 10:33 a.m. PST
Airfix HO, then 15mm for historical, 25s for fantasy.
athun25	15 Oct 2019 10:34 a.m. PST
15 mm Heritage Carthaginians
10mm Wargaming	15 Oct 2019 10:34 a.m. PST
20mm for me Take care Andy
nnascati	15 Oct 2019 10:37 a.m. PST
1/72nd Airfix, then 20mm Scruby.
BTCTerrainman	15 Oct 2019 10:39 a.m. PST
15mm
Joes Shop	15 Oct 2019 10:40 a.m. PST
25mm MiniFigs
Timbo W	15 Oct 2019 10:48 a.m. PST
Airfix too
John Leahy	15 Oct 2019 10:57 a.m. PST
20mm for Naps and 25mm for Fantasy.
Tom Reed	15 Oct 2019 11:00 a.m. PST
15mm ACW
brave face	15 Oct 2019 11:05 a.m. PST
post "army men" it was 25/28 for me.
Tacitus	15 Oct 2019 11:07 a.m. PST
28? Warhammer is what gave me my first tantalizing glimpse into the world of waging war with toy soldiers.
Mserafin	15 Oct 2019 11:18 a.m. PST
Airfix HO scale, ROCO Minitanks (1/87?) and 1/1200 ships.
Col Durnford	15 Oct 2019 11:20 a.m. PST
Airfix OO/HO and minitanks
Moonbeast	15 Oct 2019 11:22 a.m. PST
Grenadier 25mm fantasy. And then Ral Partha 25mm fantasy. It snowballed from there.
Saber6	15 Oct 2019 11:28 a.m. PST
Airfix
rustymusket	15 Oct 2019 11:33 a.m. PST
25mm, it was called. I collected RalPartha and Minifigs.
Dynaman8789	15 Oct 2019 12:02 p.m. PST
6mm
Frederick	15 Oct 2019 12:16 p.m. PST
Airfix 1/72, ACW Union, Confederate and Artillery
ZULUPAUL	15 Oct 2019 12:17 p.m. PST
1/72 Airfix
Dagwood	15 Oct 2019 12:18 p.m. PST
20mm Airfix. Lots still in the painting queue ……
mikec260	15 Oct 2019 12:21 p.m. PST
Plastics in 1/72 by Airfix. Metal was Heritage Models Confederettes in 15mm.
Bobgnar	15 Oct 2019 12:27 p.m. PST
My first games using actual rules were with Wells "little wars "with 54 mm Britains.
Patrick R	15 Oct 2019 12:32 p.m. PST
A Leifheit, square dial with rounded edges, and glued on rubber pads that came off after many years of usage … Oh, you mean gaming scale ? 1/72nd I thought you meant a weighing scale !!! Silly me !!!
Aviator	15 Oct 2019 12:50 p.m. PST
20mm Alberken/Minifigs then 25mm S Range…
Gunfreak	15 Oct 2019 12:58 p.m. PST
15mm.
robert piepenbrink	15 Oct 2019 1:02 p.m. PST
30mm. I had Airfix 1/72 and Marx playsets earlier, but 30mm Napoleonics began real miniature warfare.
Ed Mohrmann	15 Oct 2019 1:03 p.m. PST
Airfix Medieval and ACW When I went into Napoleonics ('real' wargaming ?) 30mm Scruby
dwight shrute	15 Oct 2019 1:37 p.m. PST
20mm
Wildman	15 Oct 2019 1:43 p.m. PST
25mm Minifigs Ancient late Romans.
ColCampbell	15 Oct 2019 1:54 p.m. PST
Airfix 1:72 followed quickly by Scruby and MiniFig 25mm; all Napoleonics. Jim
Choctaw	15 Oct 2019 2:01 p.m. PST
1/72 Airfix.
etotheipi	15 Oct 2019 2:08 p.m. PST
Set from 1970, in then 70's played astronauts vs moonmen. "Proper" minis … 5mm D&D 25mm in the later 70's. Or possibly 1:1 playing kill the godless Commies running around the woods with my friends, a bit earlier than that. Does that count?
huron725	15 Oct 2019 2:12 p.m. PST
1/72 Airfix
jdpintex	15 Oct 2019 2:13 p.m. PST
15mm